“I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race.” PeoplePlayCharacterDesireInterestingViewsRaceIssuesRight NowTheaterFilledVery InterestingPersonal Views Author:Kerry Washington
“When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.” FirstsPlayCharacterDesireActingComedyTheaterMusicalTragicOperaMusical Theater Author:Leslie Easterbrook
“Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don't think the desire for that magic will ever go away.” ThinkingStillsTogetherLastsDesireTechnologyMagicFineBecomingComputerTheaterGoing AwayBecoming MoreMovie TheaterSecludedLast Place Author:Wolfgang Petersen
“I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but it wasn't something I admitted to myself that I wanted to do, I guess.” WantedDesireActingSecretGrowing UpGrowingTelevisionTheaterMusicalActressesEnjoyedMusical TheaterSecret Desire Author:Amanda Schull
“I have a background in theater. At the time I read The Loved Ones script, I was playing Catherine the Great of Russia onstage. Straight after that, I played Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire and Isabella in Measure for Measure.” DesireTheaterScriptsRussiaBackgroundsLoved OnesStellaMeasure For Measure Author:Robin McLeavy
“It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.” WayArtEnoughFeelingsRealityJoyDesireArtistUnderstandingPleasureTeachAudienceDemandDiscoveryTragedyTheaterDelightInsightLiberationTriumphAlienationSchooledInformativePrometheusChanging Reality Author:Bertolt Brecht